Alex Bernstein Collection
Author: Bernstein, Alex, 1862-1941
Subject: Demography; Jews
Language: German
Call number: 196288
Digitizing sponsor: Leo Baeck Institute Archives
Book contributor: Leo Baeck Institute Archives
Collection: LeoBaeckInstitute; microfilm; americana
Notes: Film/Fiche is presented as originally captured.
Full catalog record: MARCXML
Description
MF 459 REELS 1-2:
(Please note that box and folder numbers do not appear on the microfilm version.)
1/1: Manuscript by Alex Bernstein, "Die Juden im Kreise Hoexter (Westf.) und benachbarten Bezirken - In den letzten circa 200 Jahren". Part 1: alphabetical list of Jews in Hoexter; part 2: Verzeichnis der Maedchennamen der Ehefrauen und der Namen ihrer Ehemaenner; part 3: list of places, including a map of Hoexter county. Manuscript written between 1929-1937, typescript, 80 + 36 + 131 pages, and handwritten original
1/2: Alphabetical list of Jews in Hoexter/Westphalia, with some genealogical information
1/3: History of the Eichengruen family by Gustav Eichengruen, "Die Eichen(l)gruens zugleich ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der westfaelischen Juden"; published in Hanover, n.d., 23 pages
(1/4 - 1/15: Notebooks regarding cemeteries in various communities and containing lists of names, marriages, births, and deaths)
1/4: Notebook: Various communities/Westphalia
1/5: Notebook: Hoexter
1/6: Notebook: Hoexter and other communities in Westphalia
1/7: Notebook: List of names
1/8: Notebook: Hoexter
1/9: Notebook: Various communities, Westphalia (?)
1/10: Notebook: Hoexter
1/11: Notebook: Various communities, Westphalia (?)
1/12: Notebook: Brakel in Westphalia
1/13: Notebook: Holzminden jewish cemetary
1/14: Notebook: Hoexter jewish cemetary
1/15: Notebook: List of names
1/16: Alex Bernsteins US passports from 1923 and 1925/1926
The materials in this collection document the Jewish communities in Westphalia and in particular the town of Hoexter. It contains a manuscript written by Alex Bernstein called "Die Juden im Kreise Hoexter (Westf.) und benachbarten Bezirken - In den letzten circa 200 Jahren", which includes a list of Jews in Hoexter as well as a map of Hoexter county. Folders 4-15 contain handwritten notebooks with information regarding cemeteries in various communities and lists of names, marriages, births, and deaths. A 23 page history of the Eichengruen family written by Gustav Eichengruen is included, called "Die Eichen(l)gruens zugleich ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der westfaelischen Juden"
This collection contains materials written and/or collected by Alex Bernstein. Most is focused on the Jewish communities in Westphalia and in particular the town of Hoexter. Genealogical information is featured throughout, including a history of the Eichengruen family
Siegfried Kirchheimer, 1975
Alex Bernstein was born in 1862 in Hoexter. He became an American citizen and lived in Chicago. He died in 1941 in San Diego
Selected metadata
| Page-progression: | lr |
| Scanningcenter: | sanfrancisco |
| Mediatype: | texts |
| Operator: | james.n@... |
| Scanner: | microfilm01.rich.archive.org |
| Scandate: | 20090814183359 |
| Imagecount: | 667 |
| Identifier: | alexbernstein_01_reel01 |
| Ppi: | 300 |
| Identifier-access: | http://www.archive.org/details/alexbernstein_01_reel01 |
| Identifier-ark: | ark:/13960/t87h2bb92 |
| Ocr: | ABBYY FineReader 8.0 |
| Noindex: | true |
| Curatestate: | approved |
| Sponsordate: | 20100930 |
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